Cincinnati / Athens
Athens has 23,396 residents (give or take 133) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,352 people per square mile.
Athens is about 129 miles from the Census center point for Cincinnati in a straight line and covers 9.946 square miles of land (Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and land area, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/, checked 2026-10-19).
42% of Athens homes are single-family detached, 17% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 35% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19).
67% of Athens homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 42% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Of the 7,238 occupied homes in Athens, 48% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 50% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 50% of Athens homes, ahead of gas at 48%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Athens has about the Athens County oil share of 1% and 3 points more electric heat than the county's 47% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US39009, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Athens on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Athens has 8,221 housing units, 24% built before 1940 and 60% before 1980, with 21% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Athens home was built in 1970 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3902736, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating design temperature: 6F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Athens County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 94 to 97 of 141 (Revised 11/11/2020), https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/Design%20Temperature%20Limit%20Reference%20Guide%20(2019%20Ed)%20-%20ENERGY%20STAR%20Single-Family%20New%20Homes_Rev11.pdf, fetched 2026-10-19, 99%.
That 6F figure is the Athens County cold-day number a Athens heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 6F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Athens home has 5 rooms and was built around 1970, and the count of heads and the tonnage follow the rooms and the insulation, not the square footage.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Athens. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Athens yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.